Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Meetings, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Meetings
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.88510, -6.23267
- SMR number
- WI035-048----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This bullaun stone, known as St Kevin's cup, is located in a small landscaped park at the confluence of the Avonbeg and Avonmore rivers ('Meeting of the Waters'), 30m E of the statue of Sir Thomas Moore. A roughly squared granite boulder with a modern looking fracture along its E side (L 0.7m; Wth 0.6m; H 0.35m) contains a bullaun slightly off-centre towards the N side (diam 0.36m; D 0.14m). (Price 1959, 164; Grogan and Kilfeather 1997, 159, No. 1002)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 31 October 2012
References
Grogan, E. and Kilfeather, A. (comp). 1997 Archaeological inventory of County Wicklow. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Price, L. 1959 Rock-basins or “bullauns”, at Glendalough and elsewhere. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 89, 161-88.
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.